What is your biggest hope on Starbound?

To make potato juice, right?

 

Nothing a few lua junkies and a few cans of monster can't handle.

 

I haven't killed Plantera yet in my hardmode, or at all. I have the wisp in a bottle. They drop from the dungeon spirits I think.
The thing I'm really stoked about is the exploration and playing with friends.

 

obi wan kenobi

 

Might I introduce to you...the Terraria wiki: http://terraria.gamepedia.com/Wisp_in_a_Bottle

It has everything you need to know. There's also a Wikia one also, but it's slow to update and honestly just sucks minus having the feature where users can comment and discuss things on the pages.

 

That it doesn't become a guarded village, merchant, bandit, flying monster boss party. I truly feel less would be more for starbound and these updates are frightening me that it could become as mindless as Terraria gets. It's hard to tell because these insights into development are not indicative of the overall pace of the game, so I'm left to assume the worst.

 

A lot of different races, each one with a story! I love that

 

I really hope that hostile mobs are harder, less plentiful, and more interesting than in Terraria. I really don't need to kill 200 zombies on my way to the bathroom.

I also hope building is a lot more involved than just decorating my house.

 

I only hope that Starbound is good and can waste away at least one week of my time.

 

At the time of writing, I had forgotten about procedural generation (I was pretty drunk) I retract the comment.

 

I hope for big (official) servers... several thousand players on one server.

 

Starbound is not a MMO...

 

I am aware of that... but there has not been any word of how many ppl a server can hold... not that I know of. I hope this comes down to hardware resources rather then code.

 

Probably hardware.

 

If thats the case well then Starbound could and properly will become an massive multiplayer online game - on some servers... I imagine whole communities rise from this where ppl can group up, massive trade markets and such...

That would be sweet imo

 

Really hoping for great NPC design.

I personally feel that NPCs in modern games are outdated in terms of functionality. I've seen many modding communities that have made NPCs more enjoyable/useful, and I hope that Starbound will have a great system for their NPCs before the modders take off on it. I like life in a game, rather than the common; These will kill you, these will sell you things, and these will walk around aimlessly for no reason and no use. While the player might be the hero of the story, I want background happenings and growth not only with myself but the world and NPCs around me.

 

Affirmative

 

My biggest hope is that it focuses more on the combat, and exploration... less on the tedium of mining.

My biggest complaint with Terraria is that the upgrade path to mining faster actually hinders your ability to explore the world. I know it's designed that way intentionally, to make the harder content harder to accidentally stumble upon and to increase the lifespan of a playthrough, but digging feels tedious at times.

I work in Excel spreadsheets all day at work, and to me digging around underground in terraria (before the higher level tools) feels almost exactly the same.

PS. I know this hope is probably doomed for failure, as they've already mentioned tool durability and different tiers of tools. I just hope they find a way to make it feel less tedious or slow.

 

Its release.

But seriously, I want to terraform, like a champ.

 

I don't think you're too far off since even the stone pick digs really fast and in 3by3 (or maybe 4x4, I don't remember) squares.